Mary Baxter Ellis (1892–1968) by Bassano, c. 1939 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Lynette Beardwood
Ellis, Mary Baxter (1892–1968), commanding officer of the FANY, was born on 12 November 1892 at North Ashfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, the elder daughter in the family of four children of Joseph Baxter Ellis, grocer and miller, and his second wife, Mary Sharp Taylor...